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by xnorswap 2y ago
Quite, I struggled to formulate the example because indeed reading it the interpretation is that "them" could mean letters, and so doesn't sound completely as wrong as it does in the context of a person. A better example woul
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by xnorswap 2y ago
There are a few things like this which really sound weird to a British ear. Another example is the use of "Write" in the sentence, "I wrote them". This is completely wrong to the British ear, which would be "I wrote
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Isn't Whey powder a traditional "solution" for loading up on protein?
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Or that hackerone account has been traded.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It could be useful for correlation. Say for example that you're an investigating agent in regular contact with someone. A single data-point wouldn't mean anything. However, a sequence of daily image retrievals might tell you that
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by xnorswap 2y ago
In the UK you can (and usually do) unionize without a workplace. Many are industry-specific such as the "Communications wokers' union", but there are also general workers' unions such as GMB [1] or Unite. It would be pos
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I'm aware of the link, but people don't have Signal, everyone has WhatsApp. In the UK at least, a recent ofcom ( Communications regulator ) report suggested that 76% of people reported using WhatsApp in the previous 3 months. Thi
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by xnorswap 2y ago
A WhatsApp group might well be an easier alternative for many people, although it's another Meta company if that's a concern.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I found it interesting that they mention Tomtom as being a footnote. In the UK, TomTom was much bigger than Garmin for in-car GPS: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=g... It guess they d
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by xnorswap 2y ago
> Best option is to avoid any so you don’t have to count This is why one of the best ways to lose weight is to just keep a food diary / count calories. You don't need any special / fad diet, just the act of trying to keep
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by xnorswap 2y ago
We share the blame as we spent 80 years relying on the crutch of US military support and now we struggle to see how we can stand up on our own without the crutch. The next decade will test the resolve of other liberal democracies to survive
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by xnorswap 2y ago
This is worthy of it's own submission, a very interesting post.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
"The Norway Problem": https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It worries me how blasé we seem to be to the 2038 problem. I wonder if people will still be repeating the "Y2k myth" myth as things start to fail.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
You probably don't need what you're thinking of a "VM instance" to run a VM, and for games you may well be better off building your own VM, although that depends how far down "arbitrary code" you go. There are
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by xnorswap 2y ago
'tis an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I'm not sure why you think that numbers don't add anything, this example from wikipedia is helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer#Example Including illustrative numbers on the diagram in
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by xnorswap 2y ago
The transfer times are a killer. It's only more efficient when the ratio in orbits is around 12 or higher, and then you have to go even higher than that to get more efficient, and takes at least twice as long to complete the transfer.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
This article seems very light on equations and calculations, and would be greatly enhanced by including them.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
You have a bad DVD player and good internet. Lots of people have the opposite: crummy internet where there's no guarantee that they'll get through a streamed movie without buffering issues. On the article itself: indeed sometimes
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I thought it was made illegal in the 1980's, and indeed it was in state schools, but I stand corrected here, because it was still legal in private schools until 1998.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
> pointy end of a cane > I am, after all, an elder millennial These things do not add up at all.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
What you're describing is law, most of it is bullet points, take for example the computer misuse act 1990, section 1: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1 Or if you're more pa
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by xnorswap 2y ago
In the case of lawyers though, it's more akin to paying someone to find and document edge cases. That tends to end up verbose. In the case of other realms, it's just padding because previously word-count was a metric used as a pro
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by xnorswap 2y ago
If you're entirely machine writing and reading, but still want to be human-legible, then XML does a much better job while also allowing for schema.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Apparently included in spotify premium too, I'll add that to my list, thank you.
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This is my take too. This is more like finding an unsecured s3 bucket and delving through it. It might have been "published" to YouTube, but was it really done so with informed consent? This is unlikely to be a popular opinion her
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I'm confused by the before / after graph, this is how I'm reading the graphs: The "before" graph shows a ~300ms wall-clock time which drops to ~150ms parallelised. The "after" graph shows a ~27ms wall-cloc
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by xnorswap 2y ago
> Sometimes you just want to make a network request In a drawing tool / library? That's just asking for trouble. By spec, SVG allows for XXE shenanigans. I'd rather not worry that any image file I process might exfiltrate
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I've been listening to them on KEXP.org for a decade or more now. It's a little odd tuning into "the morning show" in the afternoon, but it's good radio, and so much better for discovering music than any of the alte

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